Some interesting thoughts here. Note that there have been many versions of "Correspondence theory" (see here). Referring to what I have been saying in...
Continuing on from my previous post: The assumption that we simply know things would seem to be the natural pre-critical state of consciousness. Hegel...
You contradict yourself, insofar as you also claim that objects are intelligible, and it is their numerability and geometry that makes them intelligib...
What is there to explain. You already know what it means for something to be an actuality or a fact. Why play dumb? When one unpacks what one means by...
I haven't said that T-sentences say anything about facts by the way. As I read it the T-sentence shows the logic of the relationship between some kind...
Everyone knows what actuality is, just as they know what truth is. They are both irreducible and cannot be explained in more basic terms. Truth is a p...
Really, how does the logic of that go? Is it just that there is a global actuality that may be understand to be constituted by local actualities, or s...
Are you serious? A real event, object or quality of course. Also sometimes referred to as a fact or a state of affairs. Is it things which are true or...
You sound confused about something which is very simple. The sentence "snow is white" corresponds or fails to correspond with the actuality. If snow i...
The "Snow is white" corresponds to snow being white if snow is white. You could also say it successfully describes snow being white if snow is white. ...
If it was "superfluous/ redundant" then there would be no need to mention it in the first place. The T-sentence is designed to show the logical condit...
Are you suggesting that "post-enlightenment thinking" has a unique claim on compassion? I don't know what to make of this. That some people may persis...
The idea of gnosis as opposed to the idea of defeasible knowledge, perhaps? Or on a more mundane level the idea that ordinary knowledge, about everyda...
Yes, but the idea behind those accounts is to indicate why the "is true" holds. And the answer is that the "is true" holds if the proposition describe...
The only quibble I have with this-and it isn't substantive- is that I would have said "predictions X, Y, Z would be observed". I think the issue here ...
The level at which you discuss (with me at least) is already demeaned. But don't worry too much about it, since you won't answer straight questions I'...
My understanding is that Popper rejected induction, and saw science as being a combination of abduction (conjecture and prediction) and observation. F...
I'm not sure what you have in mind. (I won't be able to respond further until tomorrow, probably, since I'm moving house in a couple weeks and have to...
I'm not angry. I don't, except in extreme cases, take people's behavior personally, even in the 'real-world' context where I deal with them face to fa...
The fact that people may attempt to describe to others what those others have not experienced, and hence may have no notion or understanding of, const...
That's possibly true, although I don't think we are going to be able to translate the language of geomancy into the language of geology, astrology int...
OK, it seems you thought I mean that the fact that two names refer to the same individual is necessary, when of course it is not; it is contingent. Bu...
I can't see how what you say here differs in meaning from what I say. I mean the necessity is about what the names refer to, because if what two diffe...
There is a shared background of understanding attendant upon simply being human, that all people will agree upon; they are the trivials. Different par...
This just says that if two names refer to one person then inasmuch as they do refer to that one person, they do so necessarily. This is true in one se...
The problem with this notion of rigid designation is that 'Bruce Wayne' can be a name for more than one individual, and only one of those individuals ...
All perspectives are defined as "subjective" and anything we can examine is by definition an object of that subjective examination isn't it? If this i...
If it is only propositions which are true or false, then If no one believes anything about something then there are no propositions about that somethi...
Interesting; I'm also partial to skepticism, and the idea of suspending judgement and feeling the ataraxia that comes with creative acceptance of igno...
I agree. I've struck this unwillingness to question assumptions with some of our "veterans" many times before on this site and on the previous philoso...
So, in regard to your question earlier the idea that everything is mind could be translated into the terms of the idea that everything is matter in th...
I agree, just as long as that doesn't distract from more overarching issues that affect all human, animal and plant life such as climate change, resou...
It depends on what you mean by "false". I don't deny that many, even most, people are firmly focused on identity politics. I see that focus as basing ...
If I say "I own myself" or "I own my actions" this is often taken to mean "I am responsible for myself" or "I am responsible for my actions". The exte...
The question is what does the "true", not to mention the "largely true", even mean here? If truths (meaning here what is believed to be true) are dete...
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